G'day fishos. I suppose you could say most of the weather over the past week hasn't been conducive to fishing, but there's a few been caught and sometimes you need a bit of crappy weather to turn them on.
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The local Victorian puddles were again stocked with trout for the school holidays, in what must be one of the best ideas to come out of any state for a long time.
You can take the kids to any of the following and have a reasonable chance of hooking something. Sumsion Gardens received 580, Fell Timber Wetland 600, Lake Sambell 600, Upper Sandy Creek 750, Allans Flat 500, Tronoh Dredge Hole 500 and Merriwa Park 200.
The fish have been in for a few weeks now and no doubt a few have been caught. I'm sure there'd still be a few poking around.
AT A GLANCE
Dartmouth (57.09 per cent) - was again productive for those who got out between the rain and the windy conditions. Lead lining and flatlining were again the main fish catching techniques with a variety of Tassies, Cobras and minnow style lures doing well.
Consistent comments we keep getting are that the trout in Dart are in very good nick, seem to be a better average size than normal and are really good eating this year.
I suppose all of those factors could possibly be put down to a lake that's been consistently rising for a lot of months now. And I'm not sure that I've heard of this much daphnia (water flea) in the lake for a few years.
Streams - have been great generally. It's just a matter of striking them when they're not affected too much by rain. There's been a heap of insect activity in the past couple of weeks - you've only got to look at your windscreen - so there's been a few trout rising, which is great news for fly fishos in particular. Most streams in both the Ovens and King systems are also fishing well.
Sadly, the Nariel seems to have been knocked about heaps by after effects of last summer's fires and is one stream that's really struggling now. Let's hope it cops a heap of TLC from Fisheries and recovers ASAP.
Jindabyne (63.75 per cent) - was the destination for quite a few members of the Albury Wodonga Sport Fishing Club last week and it ended up a mixed bag really.
The club went up for a week starting mid-week with a comp being held over last weekend which, unfortunately for some, was a very fine, warm weekend.
Those conditions are great for a holiday but not so much if you're a keen trout troller, so this resulted in mixed success depending on when you were there.
Some of the members bagged out and some really struggled. The Morey crew, for example, caught 15 in their first session and then struggled a bit after that.
Andrew Seymour and Tim Wilson ended up catching about 37 between them for the time they were there. They did as well as just about anyone, despite sleeping in most mornings.
Fish were caught on a mix of lures as you would expect, but stand outs were Double Clutches and Rapala minnows in the 95 to 130mm range.
Eucumbene (34.57 per cent) - has been pretty similar to Jindy as far as technique goes.
Both are rising, and you would think a bait off the bank would be worth a shot while that's happening too.
Lake Hume (69 per cent) - probably didn't fish as well last weekend as it did the week before. But again, I reckon the weather and wind played a part in that.
There were still quite a few yellas caught with the "slow rolling black grub" technique using black grubs or Zerek Fish Traps.
Trolling or casting those fish traps as well as your normal favourite hard bodies is also working, and with the weather supposedly picking up from today, we will hopefully see some improvement.
There's still lots of small reddies about and worms, yabbies, jaggers or plastics should see you get not a few of those.
Don't be afraid to fish a bit shallower than you normally might either, there's plenty in the 2 to 4-metre range, as well as out in the timber.
Also had a customer in who hooked four trout early Sunday morning landing two. I hadn't heard of too many trout being caught in Hume of late, so that's great news.
He hooked three out of the four on the Greyhound Tassie just flatlining North of Bethanga Bridge.
The Murray - below Albury had been great on the yellowbelly front with a lot of fishos taking advantage of the warmer weather and slightly better river levels enabling them to have a bit more of a crack.
Flicking vibes and small spinnerbaits is the go, although bait fishos are also catching a few on yabbies and worms.
